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🏠︎ Kyoko Sakura | 601
✉ sakurakyoko@dualislink

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🕪 "You want something? Maybe I'll get back to you."

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[wishalone]

Yeah. [For a few minutes, it looks like that might be her only reply. But then, another text comes through.] A couple years ago, my family didn't have enough to eat. So it was all of us.

It was pretty easy for me to guess it happened to you, too. Must be easier to tell when you've been through it yourself.

[be_notorious]

[Hmmmm.]

[He doesn't ask if the situation was fixed. Because, if it wasn't? Nobody'd wanna talk about an absent family in text. So for now he doesn't. He'll do it later though.]

You know what? How about me and you go grocery shopping. I think I got us a little project in mind.

[He's got bad vibes about this place, and maybe some more constructive food storage might be in order.]

[wishalone]

[She's relieved he doesn't ask further. Most people would, learning a teenager and her entire family didn't have enough food. But she knows better than to assume she's off the hook yet.]

Sure. A project? What is it? You mean a recipe?

[be_notorious]

Something like that. Meet me somewhere?

[wishalone]

We can meet up wherever you wanna shop.

[be_notorious]

There's an indoor market. Best for weather like this. I'll send you the address and you can meet me there.

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[wishalone]

[Kyoko heads on over to the market, and... is immediately tempted to steal something to snack on. There are even some snacks on display right over there. They're calling her. It'd be so easy...

... but then she wouldn't be able to stand here while she waits for Drifter, because the salesperson would have line of sight on her, and could recognize their merchandise and remember they didn't sell anything to her. Not worth it.

Kyoko links her fingers behind her head and grumbles to herself.]

[be_notorious]

[The bad influence that is drifter picks her out from the crowd (via the snacks that also draw his attention) and he walks up to her.]

Lots of preservatives. Good call.

[He might even recommend some low key theft before the day is over. He doesn't want everything they do to have a paper trail.]

I was talkin' to somebody about plantin' some caches around the city. Seemed like a good call to include food in 'em.

[wishalone]

There's nothin' wrong with that, [Kyoko grumbles, part of her attitude in response to the idea she should eat healthy. Mami definitely would've commented on it, now that she thinks about it. (She doesn't want to think about it.)

But his explanation clears her mood, piques her interest. ... but doesn't change her thought trajectory.] Preservatives would be a good idea, then. So it's still fresh whenever someone goes to use 'em.

[be_notorious]

Right! So. How are you on doin' somethin' a little bad.

[AKA, he's thinking about some stealing.]

'Cause sure, we can pay. Or we can pay for half and get twice as much as we need.

[One of them buys. One of them steals. If one gets questioned, Drifter uses his ghost to pass the receipts all discrete like. Easy peasy.]

[wishalone]

[A beat.

And then Kyoko grins, wide and sly.]

Only a li'l bad? [She's in. She's definitely in.] How much are we gettin'?

[be_notorious]

I just had a few commissions come in, so I say we could get a few bagfuls each pretty easy.

[And he's very good at being distracting and loud and boisterous.]

[Even better when he can flirt with someone behind the counter. Best when they don't want him to. Then they're not just focused on getting him out, they'll not be eager to chase after him.]